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Buddhist literature as philosophy, buddhist philosophy as literature
Explores the relationship between literature and philosophy in classical and contemporary Buddhist texts.Can literature reveal reality? Is philosophical truth a literary artifice? How does the way we think affect what we can know? Buddhism has been grappling with these questions for centuries, an...
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Passionate women, passive men
Suicide is always a controversial issue. Among Jews, it is often taboo. Stereotypically, Jews do not commit suicide; certainly, they do not discuss it. Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature challenges this perception, exploring the problem of suicide through a series of lit...
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Double jeopardy
Enables teachers and other school personnel working with students with disabilities to provide a gender equitable educational experience.2002 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Highlighting the educational issues of girls and young women with disabilities, Double Jeopardy examines how they are exp...
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Flight paths
How a small group of New York biologists brought the peregrine falcon and bald eagle back from the brink of extinction.Finalist for the 2017 da Vinci Eye presented by Hopewell Publications In the late 1970s, the bald eagle and the peregrine falcon were heading toward extinction, victims of the co...
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The limits of knowledge
Argues for a transactionally situated approach to science and medicine in order to meet the needs of marginalized groups.The Limits of Knowledge provides an understanding of what pragmatist feminist theories look like in practice, combining insights from the work of American pragmatist John Dewey...
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Mediterranean perspectives
Selected papers from the Dowling College Mediterranean Conference.A collection of selected and referred papers from The Dowling College International Mediterranean Conference held in Rome and Istanbul, July 4–12, 1996. The second publication in this series provides pieces of dealing with the hist...
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Leapfrogging development?
Examines how developing countries have restructured their telecommunications in order to "leapfrog" or accelerate development.Telecommunications restructurings are now seen as important barometers in the shift among developing countries toward market-based economies. They are often posited as hel...
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Haunted children
Relating stories of his years as a child psychiatrist, the author argues that what essentially is troubling many children is better confronted in therapy rather than treated with medications.In Haunted Children Arthur F. Roemmelt, M.D., relates stories of his years as a child psychiatrist, sharin...
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The management of islamic activism
Shows how the laws governing civil society are used to regulate Islamic activism in Jordan.The Management of Islamic Activism examines the relationship between the changing nature of state power and patterns of Islamic activism in Jordan. Using extensive fieldwork, the author demonstrates how reg...
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Existence and enlightenment in the laṅkāvatāra-sūtra
This book offers a systematic analysis of one of the most important concepts characterizing the Yogācāra School of Buddhism (the last creative stage of Indian Buddhism) as outlined and explained in one of its most authoritative and influential texts, Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra. Compiled in the second half...
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The closed commercial state
Critical scholarly edition of J. G. Fichte's Closed Commercial StateAppearing for the first time in a complete English translation, The Closed Commercial State represents the most sustained attempt of J. G. Fichte, the famed author of The Doctrine of Science, to apply idealistic philosophy to pol...
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Cognition and practice
Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.This is the first book on the role of cognition in the aesthetic theory of Li Zehou (1930–2021), one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers. The cognitive dimensio...
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Owning the genome
A clear, introductory overview of the issues surrounding gene patenting.DNA patenting has emerged as a hot topic in science policy and bioethics as private companies and government agencies spend billions of dollars on genetic research and development in a race to identify, sequence, and analyze ...
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Dao and sign in history
Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing, Daoism has been known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of...
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Commonsense and the theory of international politics
"International politics is not a cumulative subject in which the latest book makes all the others obsolete...The assumption underlying these pages is that our understanding of international politics is more likely to be improved by reflecting upon and reworking what we already know about the subj...
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Idealism and the endgame of theory
Three seminal philosophical texts by F. W. J. Schelling, arguably the most complex representations of German Idealism, are clearly presented here for the first time in English.Three seminal philosophical texts by F. W. J. Schelling, arguably the most complex representations of German Idealism, ar...
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Organizational structure in american police agencies
A new theory accounts for the characteristics of individual police departments.Although most large police organizations perform the same tasks, there is tremendous variation in how individual organizations are structured. To account for this variation, author Edward R. Maguire develops a new theo...
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On the essence of language
This important early Heidegger text sheds new light on his later focus on language.This English translation of Vom Wesen der Sprache, volume 85 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, contains fascinating discussions of language that are important both for those interested in Heidegger's thought and...
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The good life
Explores how psychoanalysis can nurture and vitalize, rather than only focusing on affliction and neuroses.Psychoanalysts have traditionally been expert at uncovering what afflicts and damages people, argues Jeffrey B. Rubin, but by focusing on narcissism and perversions, depression and sadism, p...
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Archaeology of mountain landscapes
Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.Mountains contain a rich and diverse set of remnants left by human societies. They have been inhabited since prehistory and have been transformed by human activity during prehistoric...
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Race, nation, and refuge
Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century.From 1870 to 1940, racial eligibility for naturalization in the United States was limited to "free white persons" and "aliens of African nativity and persons of African descent,...
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Jews on the move
Based on data from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, the authors examine the high level of mobility among American Jews and their increasing dispersion throughout the United States, and how this presents new challenges to the national Jewish community.
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Energy, the modern state, and the american world system
Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching somethin...
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The ages of the world
A new English translation of Schelling's unfinished magnum opus, complete with a contextualizing introduction by the translator.A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling's magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as c...
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The moral warrior
Explores the moral dimensions of the current global role of the U.S. military.For the first time in history, the capabilities of the U.S. military far outstrip those of any potential rival, either singly or collectively, and this reality raises fundamental questions about its role, nature, and co...
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The lockean commonwealth
Timely reappraisal of John Locke's thoughts on the clash between executive emergency power and the importance of the rule of law.The tension between executive prerogative in times of emergency and the importance of maintaining and preserving the rule of law has been a perennial concern for modern...
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Bridges
A multidisciplinary and accessible introduction to humanity's favorite structure: the bridge.Whether you are a student considering a career in civil engineering and transportation planning, a public official interested in the future of infrastructure, or a person who simply cares about bridges, t...
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Written at imperial command
Explores both the literary features and historical context of poetry written for imperial rulers during China's early medieval period.This is the first book-length study of panegyric poetry-yingzhao shi or poetry presented to imperial rulers-in the Chinese tradition. Examining poems presented dur...
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Adventures in phenomenology
Repositions Bachelard as a critical and integral part of contemporary continental philosophy.Like Schelling before him and Deleuze and Guattari after him, Gaston Bachelard made major philosophical contributions to the advancement of science and the arts. In addition to being a mathematician and e...
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Object lessons
An important contribution to our understanding and interpretation of fetishism and of what fetishism can teach us about sexuality, gender, belief, and knowledge.Object Lessons begins with the question, What can fetishism teach us? One answer, as this book makes clear, is that fetishism is a form ...
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Colonizing the realm of words
Details the transformation of Tamil literary culture that came with colonialism and the encounter with Western modernity.A true tour de force, this book documents the transformation of one Indian literature, Tamil, under the impact of colonialism and Western modernity. While Tamil is a living lan...
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Upstate uncovered
An exciting travel guide for Upstate New York road warriors, history lovers, and tourists.In Upstate Uncovered Chuck D’Imperio mines deep into his travel journal and shares an astonishing array of fun and amazing places in Upstate New York that the casual traveler might otherwise miss. As one of ...
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Listening to others
A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.Listening to Others is the first English-language volume dedicated solely to the vast corpus of the preeminent Brazilian director, Eduardo Coutinho (1933...
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Ethnopsychiatry
This book outlines a "new ethnopsychiatry," one that considers popular or folk ethnomedicines and professional psychiatric systems in the same discourse, effacing the traditional distinction between psychiatry and ethnopsychiatry. The essays in this volume are from a diverse, interdisciplinary gr...
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Merleau-ponty and the face of the world
Assesses Merleau-Ponty's contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others.Before his death in 1961, Merleau-Ponty worried about what he ...
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Design and rhetoric in a sanskrit court epic
Explores the earliest literary treatment of Arjuna's combat with the great god Siva, providing an introduction to the Sanskrit court epic."Peterson proves that it is possible and fruitful to approach mahakavya such as 'Arjuna and the Hunter' through the aesthetic values it embodies. She succeeds ...
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Cultivating spirituality
Four Shin Buddhist thinkers reflect on their tradition's encounter with modernity.Cultivating Spirituality is a seminal anthology of Shin Buddhist thought, one that reflects this tradition's encounter with modernity. Shin (or Jodō Shinshū) is a popular form of Pure Land Buddhism, the most widely ...
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On jameson
Offers an interrogation of Jameson's critical legacy.One of the leading figures in the debate over postmodernism in the 1980s and 1990s, Fredric Jameson is regarded as the most important Marxist theoretician and cultural critic writing in America today. Although Jameson's significance as a global...
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Hinduism as a missionary religion
Reconsiders whether Hinduism can be considered a missionary religion.Is Hinduism a missionary religion? Merely posing this question is a novel and provocative act. Popular and scholarly perception, both ancient and modern, puts Hinduism in the non-missionary category. In this intriguing book, Arv...
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Consumption studies and the history of the ottoman empire, 1550-1922
An innovative application of consumption studies to the field of Ottoman history.Tracing a host of important and exciting topics relating to consumption, this book describes and analyzes the rise of mass fashion dress, changing fashions in clothing, the transcultural significance of tulip consump...
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Carl schmitt between technological rationality and theology
Situates Schmitt's legal scholarship in the context of debates regarding whether his thought was more theological or technocratic.Carl Schmitt, one of the most influential legal and political thinkers of the twentieth century, is known chiefly for his work on international law, sovereignty, and h...
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To rebuild the empire
Provides both a biography of the pivotal T'ang Dynasty figure Lu Chih and an intellectual history of his era, which is instrumental in the revival and transformation of Confucianism.To Rebuild the Empire provides the first complete critical study in any language of Lu Chih (Lu Hsuan-kung, 754-805...
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Pedagogy, democracy, and feminism
Shows how recent work in feminist theory, poststructuralist thought, and cultural studies addresses the issue of pedagogy, extending the possibility of social transformation into spaces other than the school setting.A variety of educational and broader cultural and political questions are address...
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Changing our minds
What happens when traditionally-trained academics begin to reconsider their disciplines in light of recent feminist scholarship? This book was written by academics outside Women's Studies programs who have changed their minds about the foundations of their disciplines.The authors share a commitme...
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Essential difference
Proposes a new way of understanding the nature of metaphysics, focusing on nonreductionist emergence theory, both in ancient and modern philosophy, as well as in contemporary philosophy of science.Finalist for the 2015 John N. Findlay Award in Metaphysics presented by the Metaphysical Society of ...
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Authorized agents
Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.In the nineteenth century, Native American writing and oratory extended a long tradition of diplomacy between indigenous people and settler states. As the crisis of forced removal profoundly reshaped ...
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